Quotes About Morality

Justice looks for no prize and no price; it is sought for itself, and is at once the cause and meaning of all the virtues. . . . The worst kind of injustice is to look for profit from injustice.

Honesty is the best policy

There is no people so brutish or barbarous that they do not know that they must believe in a god, even if they do not know precisely what god they should worship.

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

We are born for justice, and . . . what is just is based, not on opinion, but on nature.

My conscience has more weight for me than the opinion of the whole world

a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus.

It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow-men; of considerateness , not to wound their feelings; and in this the essence of propriety is best seen.

they follow nature as the most perfect guide to a good life. Now

Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene honesteque vivendum

The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.

Gut ist, was den Guten gefällt.

This is all that I had to say about friendship; but I exhort you both so to esteem virtue (without which friendship cannot exist), that, excepting virtue, you will think nothing more excellent than friendship.

nothing is generous that is not at the same time just.

Justice is the mistress and queen of all the virtues.

Denn wirklich tugendhaft wollen nicht so Viele sein als scheinen.

We may, I think, give the name of perfect duty to the absolute right, which the Greeks term ?????????;1 while contingent duty is what they call ????????.2 According to their definitions, what is right in itself is perfect duty; that for the doing of which a satisfactory reason can be given is a contingent

Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.